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| Dishwasher by Pete Jordan
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
The Know-It All by A.J. Jacobs
God's Debris by Scott Adams
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me edited by Ben Karlin
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Songbook by Nick Hornby
Arkansas by John Brandon
Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker
Smonk by Tom Franklin
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Harvest by Sam Inglis
Meat is Murder by Joe Pernice
My Custom Van by Michael Ian Black
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Just After Sunset by Stephen King
And The Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
Stuff White People Like by Christian Lander
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
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| I didn't do this last year, so I decided to join back in on the festivities. Here's my favorite albums of the year (it was tough to narrow it down, and I might just have picked some because I had more to say about them).
10. Paint It Black - New Lexicon
I bought three other punk albums very soon after listening to this a couple of times.
9. Portishead - Third
I admit it, I totally jumped on the bandwagon with this one.
8. The New Frontiers - Mending
I genuinely enjoy some of my friends’ music, but until now, none of it has ever been top 10 material...until now. The songs on this album are ridiculously good. I don’t think I even really like this kind of music. It’s magic, that’s what this is.
7. Torche - Meanderthal
HEAVY!
6. Dungen - 4
What if Jimi Hendrix wrote elevator music?
5. The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust
I remember this band from working with college radio, but I don’t know that I had ever listened to them (girl/guy duos usually turn me off). I stumbled upon the song “Dead Sound” on accident, absolutely loved it, and this whole album followed in suit.
4. Death Vessel - Nothing is Precious Enough for Us
His voice is just soooo cute
3. Black Mountain - In the Future
This album almost made me want to smoke weed.
2. Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull
On about the third listen, I think I had some visions.
1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Just when I had given up on dudes with acoustic guitars, this album came along and turned my world upside down. This is the first really emotional album I’ve listened to since my big Sunny Day Real Estate kick.
And here are my favorite singles of the year:
10. Fuck Buttons - “Sweet Love for Planet Earth”
9. Harvey Milk - “Death Goes to the Winner”
8. Hercules and Love Affair - “Blind”
7. Grand Archives - “Sleepdriving”
6. Antony and the Johnsons - “Another World”
5. Death Vessel - “Block My Eye”
4. The Magnetic Fields - “California Girls”
3. The Raveonettes - “Dead Sound”
2. Bon Iver - “Skinny Love”
1. Mount Eerie - “Don’t Smoke” | | |
| I'm thinking about trying out my hand at writing short stories or essays. I have one idea for a short story, and few for personal essays, so we'll see if I get around to that. I took a trip with some folks to Austin last weekend for Fun Fun Fun Fest, and it was quite eventful. Our car broke down, but we still made it (after getting a rental car), but we missed a couple of bands I wanted to see. The National, Rival Schools, Tim Fite, and The Black Angels were all awesome, among others. Josh's mom was kind enough to drive from Little Rock to pick us up and take us back home. I like November and December for a few reasons. My birthday, sweet holidays, family, and days off! I had almost forgotten about Veterans Day and then BAM!, I'm off on a Tuesday. I probably need to book a flight soon to go to North Carolina since my buddy Chet is getting married there at the beginning of the new year. I'm in the middle of about 5 books right now, so my main goal is just to have them all finished by the end of the year. | | |
| I hear people talking about being stressed out all the time and stuff, and I'm not real sure I had ever really experienced that until this past month. Now, I feel like if anything constantly stresses you out you should get the heck out, because it sucked. It dealt with work, and I totally put myself into the situation, but I am slowly but surely making my way out of it and am doing much better. I wanna go to New Orleans this weekend to see Butthole Surfers and R.E.M. but I don't have any vacation days. I'm reading Nick Cave's first book in anticipation of his second, and he straight up ripped off Hundred Years of Solitude. Maybe it's an homage. I'm trying to understand the giallo genre of film a little bit, but after a movie about lesbian vampires, I don't think I can do too much more. I'm going to try one about werewolves and then be done, taking away a mild idea of it. Compact discs have no place in the future. I'm back to eMusic, and they have greatly pleased me lately. | | |
| Warren G should thank God every night that he got Nate Dogg to sing on "Regulators". I went to a skating rink in SW LR last night, and there was a guy on roller skates in the middle just dancing to the rap songs. We also scored some free nachos. I also went to a high school football and felt a major sense of nostalgia, the good kind. I leave this week for Austin. It should be a week full of music. I'm going to try and catch Mad Happy Monday night here in LR, then I'm going to Fayetteville Tuesday night for Conor Oberst and Jenny Lewis, then my plane leaves Wednesday for Austin. Thursday night we might go see Mates of State, and then ACL is Friday-Sunday. Things are well with me. | | |
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